OpenupEd is the first MOOCs initiative which goes Europe-wide, with the support of the European Commission. At the start around 40 courses, covering a wide variety of subjects, are available, in 12 different languages. OpenupEd has been initiated and is coordinated by the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) and mostly involves open universities. The 11 launch partners are based in France, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and the UK, and outside the EU in Russia, Turkey and Israel.

The founder of Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows blended learning -- online lectures can happen at home and project-based learning can happen during school.

"Coursera Verified Certificates are a currency for your lifelong learning achievements. With a Verified Certificate, you receive official recognition from a world renowned university after successfully completing a course on Coursera through Signature Track." (from Coursera Blog )[Jacob Lyles and Leith Abdulla with their Verified Certificates) - (in Coursera Blog)

Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another.“The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.”

Summit reflects on women’s gains in 50 years at HBS — and challenges ahead in wider world

By Katie Koch

Harvard Staff WriterFriday, April 5, 2013

Photo by Katherine Taylor

On Thursday and Friday, about 800 of Harvard Business School’s roughly 11,000 alumnae — including some intrepid early graduates — descended on the Allston campus for the start of the W50 Summit, two days of reflection, celebration, and brainstorming on women’s experiences at HBS and beyond.

Saturday, 6 April 2013

Lunch with the FT: Michael Sandel - FT.com: A youthful 60, with mildly thinning hair, Michael Sandel is dressed in the garb of the academic: slacks, light blue shirt, drab jacket and no tie. There is little about his slight build and gentle mien to suggest he commands the kind of audiences...